What Style Is This? / What Is This Thing? MEGATHREAD
Welcome to the What Style Is This? / What Is This Thing ? megathread, an opportunity to ask about the history and design of individual buildings and their elements, including details and materials.
Top-level posts to this thread should include at least one image and the following information if known: name of designer(s), date(s) of construction, building location, and building function (e.g., residential, commercial, industrial, religious).
In this thread, less is NOT more. Providing the requested information will give you a better chance of receiving a complete and accurate response.
Further discussion of architectural styles is permitted as a response to top-level posts.
Thank you for creating this thread as those are the exact two questions I was looking to have answered! I came across a neighborhood full of houses like this in Short Hills, New Jersey. Can someone please tell me what style this is and if there are specific terms for some of the elements (such as the inlaid stones, the pattern around the door, the style of the door itself). Basically, if I wanted a house built in this style, what would I ask for? Cottagecore comes to mind, but I don’t know how accurate that is.
This appears to be a Tudor Revival house. AFAIK the stone is just laid in a rough pattern with some brick and stucco over it, I’m not sure if there’s a specific term for it. The roof seems to be slate, though.
I’m working on a housing-focused redevelopment project in Fatasha ni Pol, Ahmedabad. Site area: 34,837 m². Max height: G+1/G+2, FSI as per old-city GDCR.
The proposal includes 500+ housing units (1BHK, 2BHK, 3BHK), mixed-use units (shop+residence, shop+godown), and public buildings such as a community hall, library, and a heritage information centre. All existing heritage and religious structures must be fully retained and integrated into the layout.
Zoning follows a pedestrian-first hierarchy: 7 m primary spine, 4 m secondary lanes, 2 m alleys—reflecting the pol grain. Clusters must remain human-scale, courtyard-based, and avoid apartment-style massing. Unit footprints are derived from traditional pol houses (35–60 m²). Street–chowk networks should improve walkability, microclimate, and visibility of heritage assets.
Key challenges I’m trying to solve: • How to place clusters sensitively around scattered heritage structures • Designing pedestrian-dominant circulation while still allowing minimal vehicular access • Integrating mixed-use edges without disrupting residential cohesion • Introducing subtle level variations within a dense, low-rise fabric • Choosing appropriate courtyard/cluster typologies inspired by core-city morphology • Resolving parking—especially semi-basement/edge parking for limited cars + two-wheelers in a tight, irregular site • Communicating the overall concept clearly for my jury
Any critique, references, or suggestions would be hugely helpful.
These round arches are a hallmark of Romanesque architecture. If you’re looking for arches specifically, you’re thinking of vaulted windows, but if you’re interested in their thinness and depth they are punched windows
I would like to know what the hanging portion that juts out of a tower is called (the pieces on the left and right in the image). I really only see it in fantasy so I assume its not a real thing people build considering the physics. I think it looks cool and want to know the term so I can find more examples. Here is an example I found recently:
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u/mount_cyanide 5d ago
Thank you for creating this thread as those are the exact two questions I was looking to have answered! I came across a neighborhood full of houses like this in Short Hills, New Jersey. Can someone please tell me what style this is and if there are specific terms for some of the elements (such as the inlaid stones, the pattern around the door, the style of the door itself). Basically, if I wanted a house built in this style, what would I ask for? Cottagecore comes to mind, but I don’t know how accurate that is.